The newly established Ministry for Environmental Protection moved swiftly Tuesday to clean up Tel Aviv.
In one of his first official acts, Minister Ronni Milo of Likud engaged private contractors to collect thousands of tons of garbage that have been festering in the streets for days.
The Tel Aviv municipality is squeezed in a dispute between its sanitation workers and the Treasury.
The garbage collectors, many of them Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, have gone on a slowdown strike because the Finance Ministry refuses to pay them a promised “efficiency bonus.”
The bonus was approved by the City Council to compensate sanitation workers for removing tons of garbage accumulated during an earlier strike.
But the national wage supervisor, Ya’acov Danon, insists now that pay increases granted public servants must be part of a nationwide program of incentive bonuses.
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